In late November, Canada released its long-delayed Indo-Pacific strategy (CIPS).
It comes in the wake of the Group of 20 and Indo-Pacific summitry and Foreign Minister Melanie Joly’s visit to Tokyo in October to announce the Canada-Japan Action Plan for their joint shared priorities for the Indo-Pacific.
Tokyo should be pleased with Ottawa’s new strategy. It joins an increasingly long list of like-minded countries that explicitly calls out China as “an increasingly disruptive global influence.”
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